page_title: Natalia Chernogolova
hierarchical_section_title: Natalia Chernogolova
caption_attribution_description: English: The Belarus artist Natalia Chernogolova was visiting Kew Gardens in London at the start of her third trip to the UK. This informal portrait was taken in the Palm House using my Nokia 6500 slide mobile phone camera, fitted with a 2.8/4.5 Tessar lens and a 3.2megapixel resolution.
context_page_description: Natalia Chernogolova is a Belarusian artist.
  She was born on 15 May 1954 in Zhitkovichi, Gomel Region, USSR. She graduated from the Minsk School of Art in 1976 and went on to study in the Art and Drawing Department of the Pedagogical Institute in Vitebsk, graduating in 1982. In 1989 she was elected to the USSR Union of Artists, undertaking various official commissions.
  Natalia paints without preliminary sketches or drawings. "Painting is her life. She finds it impossible not to paint. She works with passion and vitality, and her love of life is evident in her work. Natalia has developed a way of painting using only her fingers. This, underpinned by her long classical training, enables her to capture the vigour and spirit that she sees in the subjects she has chosen."
  She first visited the United Kingdom in 2005 when she created many vivid oil paintings of street scenes in Congleton and Cheshire landscapes. Her neo-expressionist paintings appear in collections and galleries in the US, UK, Germany, Belarus, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Canada and Israel. She lives in Brest, Belarus.
context_section_description: Natalia Chernogolova is a Belarusian artist.
  She was born on 15 May 1954 in Zhitkovichi, Gomel Region, USSR (now Belarus). She graduated from the Minsk School of Art in 1976 and went on to study in the Art and Drawing Department of the Pedagogical Institute in Vitebsk, graduating in 1982. In 1989 she was elected to the USSR Union of Artists, undertaking various official commissions.
  Natalia paints without preliminary sketches or drawings. "Painting is her life. She finds it impossible not to paint. She works with passion and vitality, and her love of life is evident in her work. Natalia has developed a way of painting using only her fingers. This, underpinned by her long classical training, enables her to capture the vigour and spirit that she sees in the subjects she has chosen."
  She first visited the United Kingdom in 2005 when she created many vivid oil paintings of street scenes in Congleton and Cheshire landscapes. Her neo-expressionist paintings appear in collections and galleries in the US, UK, Germany, Belarus, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Canada and Israel. She lives in Brest, Belarus.
caption: Chernogolova in the Palm House, Kew in June 2009
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